TEHRAN – “The Rock”, a documentary by Hamid Jafari from Iran, has received the best short documentary award at the 2017 New Orleans Film Festival, the organizers have announced.

The film is about a woman in southern Iran who goes to the mountain by the village every day, breaks up rocks, puts the stones on a truck and makes a living out of it for her family.

The festival ran from October 11-19. 

Photo: A scene from “The Rock”, a documentary by Hamid Jafari

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